Graham Nash Quotes
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Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic
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Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
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I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
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With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.
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Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.
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If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
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Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.
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I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
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You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.
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The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
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I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
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Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
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I'm curious about life, period.
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I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it was 30 years ago, get over it! But people say, No, no, it changed my life, and I don't understand that. I can't take that seriously as a producer of what I consider to be art. If they want to collect it, fantastic. If you see what I saw when I took it and it means something to you, then by all means collect it. If I make some money, um, fine.
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We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
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I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
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One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
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I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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There is a great correlation between music and images.
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One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.
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My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.
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If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
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After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
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I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what you choose to get out of them, and I started to collect photographs.
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There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
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I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.
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I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
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Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
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Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
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